Wozniacki shrugs off early Sydney ouster
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January 12, 2011, Wednesday
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WORLD No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki shrugged off defeat in her first competitive match of the year at the Sydney International yesterday, saying she would be ready to go at the Australian Open next week.
Dane Wozniacki went down 3-6, 3-6 to Slovakia's Dominika Cibulova in a rain-disrupted second-round match and was later joined at the exit by second seed Vera Zvonareva and fourth seed Sam Stosur.
"It happens," the 20-year-old told reporters. "Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You need to learn from the losses.
"It's the first tournament of the year. I just want to get the match playing going. There were a few positive things in there that I can take out of it, and then I just need to work on the rest. But I'm confident that for Melbourne I'll be okay."
Russian Zvonareva, the world No. 2, also departed early with her 7-5, 7-5 loss to Italy's Flavia Pennetta, crumbling after fighting her way back into the match in the second set. Zvonareva was runner up to Kim Clijsters at Flushing Meadows and to Serena Williams at Wimbledon last year.
Stosur, the best hope of a local champion at Melbourne Park, made it a trio of upsets when she was beaten 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 by twice grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in a sloppy match, the Russian edging the unforced error count 41-39.
World No. 3 Clijsters had no such problems in her second round match, clinically dispatching frustrated Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals.
Clijsters, who dropped just three games in the first round, wrapped up the first set with a minimum of fuss before coming through a ding-dong second set that featured five service breaks.
Clijsters ignored Zahlavova Strycova's racket-smashing histrionics in the second set - "I hear it, but I'm focused on the next point" - and declared herself in tip-top condition for the year's first grand slam next week in Melbourne.
In men's first-round matches, No. 7 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain had a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win over Australian qualifier Chris Guccione and Juan Igncacio Chela of Argentina beat Radek Stepanek 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
In New Zealand, Thomaz Bellucci recovered from a mid-match slump to beat American qualifier Michael Russell 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-5 in the first round of the Auckland tournament.
French qualifier Adrian Mannarino, playing his eighth match of the past two weeks, beat fifth-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-4, 6-3. Mannarino will now play his compatriot and mentor Arnaud Clement, who beat Xavier Malisse of Belgium 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.
Sixth-seeded David Nalbandian beat Italy's Fabian Fognini 7-6 (6), 6-4 in his first match of 2011.
Dane Wozniacki went down 3-6, 3-6 to Slovakia's Dominika Cibulova in a rain-disrupted second-round match and was later joined at the exit by second seed Vera Zvonareva and fourth seed Sam Stosur.
"It happens," the 20-year-old told reporters. "Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You need to learn from the losses.
"It's the first tournament of the year. I just want to get the match playing going. There were a few positive things in there that I can take out of it, and then I just need to work on the rest. But I'm confident that for Melbourne I'll be okay."
Russian Zvonareva, the world No. 2, also departed early with her 7-5, 7-5 loss to Italy's Flavia Pennetta, crumbling after fighting her way back into the match in the second set. Zvonareva was runner up to Kim Clijsters at Flushing Meadows and to Serena Williams at Wimbledon last year.
Stosur, the best hope of a local champion at Melbourne Park, made it a trio of upsets when she was beaten 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 by twice grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in a sloppy match, the Russian edging the unforced error count 41-39.
World No. 3 Clijsters had no such problems in her second round match, clinically dispatching frustrated Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals.
Clijsters, who dropped just three games in the first round, wrapped up the first set with a minimum of fuss before coming through a ding-dong second set that featured five service breaks.
Clijsters ignored Zahlavova Strycova's racket-smashing histrionics in the second set - "I hear it, but I'm focused on the next point" - and declared herself in tip-top condition for the year's first grand slam next week in Melbourne.
In men's first-round matches, No. 7 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain had a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win over Australian qualifier Chris Guccione and Juan Igncacio Chela of Argentina beat Radek Stepanek 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
In New Zealand, Thomaz Bellucci recovered from a mid-match slump to beat American qualifier Michael Russell 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-5 in the first round of the Auckland tournament.
French qualifier Adrian Mannarino, playing his eighth match of the past two weeks, beat fifth-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-4, 6-3. Mannarino will now play his compatriot and mentor Arnaud Clement, who beat Xavier Malisse of Belgium 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.
Sixth-seeded David Nalbandian beat Italy's Fabian Fognini 7-6 (6), 6-4 in his first match of 2011.
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